SAW022605 SCOTLAND (1949). Inverness, general view, showing Douglas Hotel, Union Street and St John's Church, Church Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing east.

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Title [SAW022605] Inverness, general view, showing Douglas Hotel, Union Street and St John's Church, Church Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing east.
Reference SAW022605
Date 1949
Link Canmore Collection item 1269187
Place name
Parish INVERNESS AND BONA
District INVERNESS
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 266614, 845333
Longitude / Latitude -4.2248285255184, 57.478815033467
National Grid Reference NH666453

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Oil stained car park off Bank Street, no such thing to-day.

Billy Turner
Wednesday 9th of March 2016 04:00:08 PM
North of Scotland Bank corner of Church St/Queensgate. Midland Bank who acquired Clydesdale Bank in 1920 also acquired the North of Scotland Bank in 1923 but the Aberdeen management had fiercely resisted any attempt to merge with Clydesdale. However, the changed competitive market after the Second World War meant that the two banks could not remain separate and in 1950 they were amalgamated to become the Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank (soon shortened to Clydesdale Bank). Clydesdale had 189 branches and the North of Scotland 161, covering 221 towns between them. Of the eight Scottish banks, Clydesdale had been the third largest by deposits, the North being the smallest. The merged bank became Scotland's largest in terms of deposits, advances and branches. However, by 1969, mergers elsewhere had reduced the number of Scottish banks to three with Clydesdale now being the smallest. Midland needed to rationalise the enlarged Clydesdale but faced resistance. Midland also needed additional capital and its solution to both challenges was to sell Clydesdale (along with Midland's Irish subsidiaries) to National Bank of Australia in 1987.

Billy Turner
Wednesday 9th of March 2016 03:40:53 PM
1945-1949 Jaguar Mark IV The Jaguar Mark IV (pronounced mark four) is a range of automobiles built by Jaguar Cars from 1945 to 1949. The cars were marketed as the Jaguar 1½ litre, Jaguar 2½ litre and Jaguar 3½ litre with the Mark IV name later applied in retrospect to separate this model from the succeeding Mark V range. The range was a return to production of the SS Jaguar 1½ litre, 2½ litre and 3½ litre models produced by SS Cars from 1935 to 1940. Before World War II the model name Jaguar was given to all cars in the range built by SS Cars Ltd with the saloons titled SS Jaguar 1½ litre, 2½ litre or 3½ litre and the two-seater sports cars the SS Jaguar 100 2½ litre or 3½ litre. In March 1945 the company name SS Cars Ltd was changed to Jaguar Cars Ltd. All the Mark IVs were built on a separate chassis frame with suspension by semi-elliptic leaf springs on rigid axles front and rear.

Billy Turner
Tuesday 8th of March 2016 05:39:17 PM